While doing
this, these spies within the ranks were making daily reports
of the plans and purposes of the strikers. To my knowledge,
when lawlessness was at its height and murder ran riot, these
men wore little patches of white on the lapels of their coats
so that their fellow detectives of the two thousand would not
shoot them down by mistake."
He, of course, referred to the great strike at Homestead,
Pennsylvania, in 1892. In point of fact, there were only six
private detectives engaged on the side of the employers at
that time, and these were there to assist the local
authorities in taking charge of six hundred and fifty
watchmen, and to help place the latter upon the property of
the steel company. These watchmen were under the direction
of the sheriff and sworn in as peace officers of the county.
Mr. Beet seems to have confused his history and mixed up
the white handkerchief of the Huguenots of Nantes with the
strike-breakers of Pennsylvania. It is needless to repeat
(as Mr.
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